Synoptic-scale flow and valley cold pool evolution in the western United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1625-1643

  Reeves, Heather Dawn ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE GUIDANCE; COLD POOL; FREEZING RAIN; NUMERICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WAVE MOTIONS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

LANDFORMS;

AIR QUALITY; COLD POOL; FOG; NUMERICAL MODEL; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 74549157649     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222234.1     Document Type: Article

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